On May 25-26, 2016, CLDP, in cooperation with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, conducted a workshop entitled “Interagency Border Cooperation”. The workshop provided the opportunity for Ukrainian government agencies to come together to discuss legislative and institutional steps necessary to adopt a framework of interagency coordination to better interdict substandard and illicit goods in Ukraine, as well as the efficiency of other relevant legal remedies.

CLDP partnered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and with Georgia's National Intellectual Property Center (Sakpatenti) and organized a 4-day course on Trademark Examination for Sakpatenti trademark examiners.

CLDP conducted its 4th joint Third Country Training Program (TCTP) course on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Customs Investigations with Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Intellectual Property Academy on March 14-18, 2016 in Singapore.

On March 12-17, 2016, CLDP, in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), conducted the Patents and Trademarks Appellate Program: Process and Practice for four attorneys from the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (Sakpatenti). The program for four Sakpatenti attorneys was hosted by US PTO and held primarily at the PTO Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) in Alexandria, Virginia. The sessions were led by OPIA’s experts, patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, and an intellectual property research specialist.

CLDP organized a US Study Tour on Harnessing the Benefits of Technology Transfer and Innovation-based Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth in Algeria and Tunisia in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, from February 29-March 3, 2016.